[CCTALK] Re: First SGI Workstations? unix on 68k / mips

From: Sridhar the POWERful <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Thu May 16 23:06:26 2002

On Thu, 16 May 2002, Raymond Moyers wrote:

> > The IRIS 2000 was based on a motorola 680xx chip of some kind.
> > Their first smaller workstation was a "personal IRIS" system. It
> > was a tower case. After that, the Indigo.
> >
> > I know specifically that the first Indigos used R3000 CPUs, but
> > you'll have to look up the ones used in Personal IRIS and IRIS 2000.
> >
> > Also look at IRIS 3000, and IRIS Professional (I think those are the
> > ones) systems, which were produced in between. (In that order)
>
> It seems everyone started out with 68k chips then mips then ...
> didnt Sun use 68k then mips before sparc ?

Nope. 68K then (briefly, thank God) i386, then SPARC.

Peace... Sridhar

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